Allen N. Berger

Allen N. Berger is the Carolina Distinguished Professor and H. Montague Osteen, Jr. Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. He co-founded and co-directs the Center for Financial Institutions, chairs the Fixed Income-Financial Institutions Conference organizing committee, and is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

Education includes:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley (1983)
• M.A. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley (1979)
• B.A. in Economics, Northwestern University (1976)

Research expertise spans financial institutions, with 138 refereed publications in leading finance and economics journals. Major contributions include developing liquidity creation measures used globally, analyzing bank efficiency, and examining crisis interventions. His work has received over 104,000 Google Scholar citations with an H-index of 113.

Honors include the Southern Finance Association's Lifetime Service Award (2023), Best Paper Award from Review of Corporate Finance (2023), and University of South Carolina's top research award. He has addressed central banks worldwide and serves on eight editorial boards. Before academia, he spent 26 years at the Federal Reserve Board.

Research areas:

• Bank liquidity creation and financial crises
• Government interventions (TARP, PPP)
• Bank competition and FinTech
• International banking comparisons
• Small business lending dynamics